Program overview

MONDAY EVENING, 17 MARCH 1997

D41.01 Magnetostrictively Actuated Stick-Slip Linear Translation Mechanism

Robert G. Chave, C. A. Lindensmith, Inseob Hahn, Martin B. Barmatz (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Low Temperature Science amp; Engineering Group)

D41.02 Fabrication of HTS SNS Josephson Junction by Focused Ion Beam

C.-H. Chen, Z. Trajanovic, Z. W. Dong, C. J. Lobb, T. Venkatesan (Center for Superconductivity Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742), J. Orloff, J. Melngailis (Institute for Plasma Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742)

D41.03 Scanning Photoemission Microscopy of Tribological Surfaces

H. Zhang, H. Ade (NCSU), B Winn, J Kirz (SUNY@StonyBrook), D. Polizzotti, R. Cameron (EXXON Research and Engineering)

D41.04 Spectromicroscopy of Polymers: Comparison of Radiation Damage with Electron and Photon Core Excitation Spectroscopy Techniques

H. Ade, A. P. Smith (NCSU), E. G. Rightor (Dow), A. P. Hitchcock, S. Urquhart (McMaster), R. Leapman (NIH)

D41.05 Cast Process Simulation for the Rapid Tooling.

Renji Zhang, Rui Jiang, Yuan Liu, Yongnian Yan (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China.)

D41.06 Error Propagation in Rapid Tooling Process.

Renji Zhang, Yuan Liu, Rui Jiang, Yongnian Yan (Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China.)

D41.07 Inexpensive acquisition system for beam shape analysis in studies on dissociation in fast molecular beams.

Eugene V. Moskovets (Texas Tech University, Lubbock)

D41.08 Dynamic disorder in a crystallized peptide chain

H.N. Bordallo, J. Eckert (Los Alamos National Laboratory), M. Barthes (University of Montpellier II)

D41.09 Probing Protein Channel Dynamics At The Single Molecule Level.

M. Ann Lee, Robert C. Dunn (Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS = 66045)

D41.10 Dynamics and free energy of polymers partitioning into a nanoscale pore

S.M. Bezrukov (NIH,PNPI), I. Vodyanoy (NIH,ONR), R.A. Brutyan (NIH), J.J. Kasianowicz (NIST)

D41.11 Free Energy Simulations of Retinal Reisomerization in Bacteriorhodopsin

Ann Hermone, Krzysztof Kuczera (University of Kansas)

D41.12 Avalanche of Bifurcations and Hysteresis in a Model of Cellular Differentiation

Gábor Fáth, Zbigniew Doma\'nski, Paul Erd\H os (Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

D41.13 Stochastic resonance in ion channels

S.M. Bezrukov (NIH,PNPI), M.A. Pustovoit (PNPI), I. Vodyanoy (NIH,ONR)

D41.14 Raman Imaging of Dental Adhesive Diffusion

D.M. Wieliczka, M.B. Kruger (Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Missouri - Kansas City), P. Spencer (School of Dentistry, Univ. of Missouri - Kansas City)

D41.15 A Cantilevered Probe Design for Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy (NSOM)

Chad E. Talley, Gregory Cooksey, Robert C. Dunn (Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045)

D41.16 Effective Models for Electron Tansfer in Proteins -\ Connection Between Pathway and Detailed Hamiltonians

I.A. Balabin, J.N. Onichic (UC San Diego)

D41.17 Generalized Simulated Annealing Algorithms Using Tsallis Statistics: Application to Energy Minimization for Point Charges on a Sphere and Structures of Clusters

Y. Xiang, W. Fan, D. Y. Sun, X. G. Gong (Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sceinces, 230031-Hefei, China)

D41.18 Ab initio Study of the Temperature Effect upon Small Si Clusters

Zhong-Yi Lu, C. Z. Wang , K. M. Ho (Ames Laboratory-U.S. DOE. and Dept. of Physics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa)

D41.19 Using Total Internal Reflection as a Probe of Liquid Crystal Interfaces

Guy M. Danner, Noel Clark (Condensed Matter Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder)

D41.20 Approach to Equilibrium in Nematic Liquid Crystals in Random Fields

Yi-Kuo Yu (Case Western Reserve University), E. M. Terentjev (University of Cambridge), P. L. Taylor (Case Western Reserve University)

D41.21 Adhesion of Surfactant Layers

P. Poulin (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA), J. Bibette, D. Roux (Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal/CNRS, Pessac, FRANCE)

D41.22 Phase Behavior of a Microemulsion Under Shear

Galen T. Pickett, Werner H. Hort, Eugenia Corvera, Anna C. Balazs (Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering), David Jasnow (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261)

D41.23 Soot Formation via Gelation in an Acetylene/Air Diffusion Flame

C.M. Sorensen, W. Hageman, T. Rush, H. Huang, C. Oh (Kansas State University)

D41.24 The Scaling Behavior of Bubble Size and Drainage Rate in a Coarsening Wet Foam at Constant Liquid Fraction

J. C. Crocker, H. Vishwasrao, G. Nishimura, A. G. Yodh, D. Weitz (Dept. of Phys. and Astron., Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)

D41.25 Depolarized Light Scattering from Monodisperse Liquid Crystal Droplets

D.A. Weitz, P. Hsu, P. Poulin (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA)

D41.26 Wetting Layer Growth in the Continuous Film Regime

G.J. Sibona, C.E. Budde (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina), C.A. Condat (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez)

D41.27 Fabrication and Optical Band-Structure Measurements of Colloidal Photonic Crystals

J. M. Paransky (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Pennsylvania), A. D. Dinsmore, Z. M. Yu, M. Aggarwal, A. G. Yodh, A. T. Johnson (Dept. of Physics and Astron., Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)

D41.28 X-ray study of the liquid-vapor interface structure of tin:gallium

Ning Lei, Zhengqing Huang, Staurt A. Rice (University of Chicago)

D41.29 Alignment of Two-Dimensional Rods under Shear

Daniel K. Schwartz, M. Levent Kurnaz (Tulane University)

D41.30 The Hall effect in two-dimensional composites

Henrik Christiansson (Theoretical Physics, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)

D41.31 Local Magnetism in Nanoscale Metallic Particles

Liang-Jian Zou, X.G. Gong, Q.Q. Zheng (Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sceinces, 230031-Hefei, China)

D41.32 Investigation of Glassy Behavior in Solid Solution Ceramics: Pb(Zn_1/3Nb_2/3)O_3-PbTiO_3

R.S. Katiyar, Z.-Y Cheng (University of Puerto Rico)

D41.33 Tunable Photonic Crystals Based on Superlattices in Porous Opals

A.A. Zakhidov (AlliedSignal, Research amp; Technology, Morristown, NJ), R.H. Baughman (AlliedSignal, Research amp; Technology, Morristown, NJ)

D41.34 Instantaneous Normal Modes In Silica

S. D. Bembenek, B. B. Laird, J. B. Sturgeon, Yao Houndonougbo (Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045)

D41.35 Drag effect for a doble-layer charged Bose gas system

B. Tanatar (Department of Physics, Bilkent University, 06533 Ankara, Turkey), A. K. Das (Department of Physics, Dalhaousie University, 06533 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5, Canada)

D41.36 Atomistic Approach to Electronic Structure of Transition Metals in Solids

E. G. Noda (ZSU, Ukraine)

D41.37 High Precision Brillouin Zone Integration for the Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy Energy: A comparative Study.

G. Schneider, H. J. F. Jansen (Department of Physics, Oregon State University)

D41.38 Quantum Size Effects in Pd Nanocrystals

Y.Y. Chen (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica,115 Taiwan, ROC), Y. Yao (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, 115 Taiwan, ROC), H. Lin (), C. Tung (Department of Material Engineering, Tatung Institute, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC)

D41.39 Some Work in Magnetic Field Density Functional Theory

Freddie Salsbury (University of California at Berkeley Department of Chemistry and the Material Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

D41.40 Magnetic Interaction between 3d- Impurity and 4f- Host

Zhi Zeng (Institute of Solid State Physics, Academia Sinica, China), D.E. Ellis (Department of Physics and Astronomy and Materials Research Center, Northwestern University, USA), E.M. Baggio-Saitovitch (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas F\acuteisicas,Brasil)

D41.41 The Influence of d-d Transitions on Faraday Rotation in Ni-Substituted Ferries.

Xijuan Zhang, Yingmei Wang, Zhengming Shao (Yangzhou University, China.)

D41.42 The Action of Crystal Electric Field on Faraday Rotation in Ni-Substituted BaM.

Zhengming Shao (Yanhzhou Skilled Workers' School, China.), Xijuan Zhang, Yingmei Wang (Yangzhou University, China.)

D41.43 Application of the new Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof GGA correction to transition metals: FLMTO study

D.L. Novikov, A.J. Freeman (Science and Technology Center for Superconductivity^, Northwestern U.)

D41.44 KKR-CPA studies of atomic disorder in transition metal alloys

M. Schröter (Universität Duisburg, Germany), H. Akai (Osaka University, Japan), P. Entel (Universität Duisburg, Germany)

D41.45 Expanded phases of semiconductors: electronic structure theory analysis.

J. Gryko (College of Eastern Utah, and ASU), A. A. Demkov, Otto F. Sankey, R. Marzke (Arizona State Univ.), W. Windl (Los Alamos National Lab.)

D41.46 Corrections to Density Functional Theory Band-Gaps

Kurt A. Johnson, N. W. Ashcroft (Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Clark Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853-2501 USA)

D41.47 Ab-initio theory of low temperature spin dynamics : frozen magnon calculations for localized and itinerant magnets^*.

I. V. Solovyev, K. Terakura (JRCAT, Japan), O. Mryasov, A. J. Freeman (Northwestern U.), A. I. Liechtenstein (IFF, Germany)

D41.48 The Accelerator Facility at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL)

S Thevuthasan, C.H.F. Peden, M.H. Engelhard, D.R. Baer, G.S. Herman, Y. Liang (EMSL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352)

D41.49 Thermal Diffusivity Measurements of Ribbon-shaped Carbon Fibers using Transverse Photothermal Deflection

J. H. Barkyoumb, D. Agassi (Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, West Bethesda, MD, 20817)

D41.50 Near-field scanning microwave microscopy of microwave devices

C. P. Vlahacos, David E. Steinhauer, S. Dutta, S. M. Anlage, F. C. Wellstood (Center for Superconductivity Research, Physics Department, University of Maryland, College Park), H. Newman (Naval Research Laboratory)

D41.51 Nano-pit array formation using force modulation in AFM for ultrahigh density recording

S. Hosaka, H. Koyanagi, M. Miyamoto, A. Kikukawa, K. Nakamura, K. Etoh (Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.)

D41.52 Anomalous Inversion of Surface Resistance

S.. M. Bhagat, S. E. Lofland Jr. (Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland)

D41.53 Superfluidity in H_2 surfaces

M.C. Gordillo, D.M. Ceperley (NCSA, Beckman Institute. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

D41.54 Simulations of microchannels with rough walls

Troy Wenski, Joseph Koning, Alejandro Garcia (Dept. Physics, San Jose State University)

D41.55 Recent Results

R. Jones (Emporia State Univ.)

D41.56 Decay Of Grid Turbulence In Superfluid Helium 4.

Steven R. Stalp, Russell J. Donnelly (University of Oregon)

D41.57 Instrument Development for High Reynolds Numer Pipe Flow in Helium I

Chris J. Swanson, Russell J. Donnelly (University of Oregon)

D41.58 An Application of the Coupled Cluster Method to the t-J Model

J.D. Prie, J.D. Mancini (Fordham University), Y. Zhou (University of Minnesota), S.P. Bowen (Argonne National Laboratory)

D41.59 Transport, Thermodynamic, and Magnetic Studies of Sr_1-xCa_xRuO_3 Single Crystals

M. Shepard, S. McCall, G. Cao, J.E. Crow (NHMFL, Florida State University), R.P. Guertin (Tufts University.)

D41.60 Quantum Monte Carlo study of itinerant ferromagnetism \em

N. Blümer (Dept.of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), K. Held, J. Schlipf, M. Ulmke, J. Wahle, D. Vollhardt (Theoretische Physik III, Univ.Augsburg, Germany)

D41.61 Theoretical Analysis of the Spin Density Wave Transition in V_2-yO_3

T. Wolenski, M. Grodzicki, J. Appel (I. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg, Germany)

D41.62 ^7Li NMR and Relaxation in LiV_2O_4: Heavy Fermion Fermi Liquid Behavior.

F. Borsa, S. Kondo, D.C. Johnston (Ames Laboratory* and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University), R. Sala, A.V. Mahajan (Ames Laboratory*, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011)

D41.63 Low Temperature Resistivity and Specific Heat of Single Crystal U(Pt_1- x,Pd_x)_3

M. J. Graf (Boston College), R. J. Keizer, A. de Visser, A. A. Menovsky, J. J. M. Franse (Van der Waals - Zeeman Inst.)

D41.64 Finite-Temperature Photoelectron Spectroscopy of a Narrow-Band Heavy Fermion System

Changfeng Chen (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

D41.65 Proximity Effect of Pb on La Doped CeCu_\bf\rm6

X. Yang, T-P. Chen, J. L Wagner, P. Sourivong (Department of Physics, University of North Dakota), J. T. Wang (Department of Physics, Southern University and A&M College)

D41.66 Spin gap in a non-half-filled Kondo chain

Arnold E. Sikkema (IFT, U. of Florida), Ian Affleck (CIAR, U. of British Columbia), Steven R. White (UC Irvine)

D41.67 Surface Tamm States In The Propagation Of Electromagnetic Longitudinal Waves In Periodic Superlattices

Gerardo Vazquez-Fonseca (IFUNAM), Victor M. Ortega-Montiel (IFUNAM,FCUNAM), Marcelo del Castillo-Mussot (IFUNAM)

D41.68 Inverse Dielectric Function of an Asymmetric Double Quantum Well System Near the Bounding Surface of a Semi-infinite Dynamic Host Medium

N.J.M. Horing, Yuksel Ayaz (Physics Dept., Stevens Inst. of Tech. , Hoboken, NJ 07030)

D41.69 Temperature Dependence of Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy of Fe/Tb Multilayers

A. R. Chowdhury, A. E. Freitag (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

D41.70 Spiral Convention Columns; Improved Estimate of Apparent Rotation Period (=13333.6 yr) of Earth's Solid Inner Core

Keith L. McDonald (Salt Lake City, UT)

D41.71 The S=3/2 Heisenberg chain in a magnetic field

Gábor Fáth, Paolo Santini, Zbigniew Doma\'nski, Paul Erd\H os (Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

D41.72 Dynamic properties of a magnetic particulate in a fluid.

Mark Filipkowski, Aiden Kunkle, Matthew Foster (University of Arkansas - Fayetteville)

D41.73 Computer Simulation of Magnetization Reversal in Fe Sesquilayers on W(110)

M. Kolesik, M. A. Novotny, P. A. Rikvold (^\astMARTECH, SCRI, Florida State University; Electrical Engineering, FAMU-FSU)

D41.74 Numerical Simulation of Neutron Diffraction from Coupled/Uncoupled Magnetic Superlattices

K. Goldman, T. M. Giebultowicz, H. Kepa (Oregon State University), S. K. Sinha (Advanced Photon Source, ANL)

D41.75 Power-Law Correlated Phase in Random-Field XY Models and Randomly Pinned Charge-Density Waves

Ronald Fisch (Washington U., St. Louis, MO)

D41.76 Unstable Room-Temperature Crystal Structure of CuGeO_3 Suggested by EPR Studies and Proved by X-ray Diffraction Experiments

I. Yamada (Chiba Univ., Jpn.), M. Hidaka (Kyushu Univ., Jpn.), M. Nishi (Tokyo Univ., Jpn.), J. Akimitsu (Aoyama-Gakuin Univ., Jpn.)

D41.77 A Form of Ge-Fe-oxide With Antiferromagnetic Ordering Temperature Near 265 K.

K. Barghout, H.H. Hamdeh, J.C. Ho (Wichita State University), R.J. Willey (Northeastern University), M.J. O'Shea (Kansas State University.)

D41.78 A Magnetic Langmuir-Blodgett Film.

C.T. Seip, D.R. Talham (Dept. of Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville), G.E. Granroth, M.W. Meisel (Dept. of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville)

D41.79 High Magnetostriction in Amorphous Tb-Fe/Fe-B Multilayers

C. Prados, G. C. Hadjipanayis (University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA), I. Panagiotopoulos (NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece), J. J. Freijo, A. Hernando (Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, Madrid, Spain)

D41.80 Criteria for existence of 90 degree rotation in the magneto-optical polar Kerr effect

Y.A. Uspenskii (FIAN, Moscow, Russia), V.P. Antropov, B.N. Harmon (Ames Lab., ISU, Ames, IA)

D41.81 Changes in the Magnetism of Nanoscale Ferrihydrite Particles by Chemical Coating

M.M. Ibrahim, M.S. Seehra (West Virginia University)

D41.82 Orientation of the Magnetic Moments in amorphous TbFe Films

Werner Keune (University of Duisburg), R.M. Osgood III, Gian P. Felcher (Argonne National Laboratory)

D41.83 Change of Crystal Structure and Magnetism in the Two-Dimensional Ferromagnet K_2CuF_4 at High Pressures

M. Ishizuka, M. Terai, S. Endo, K. Amaya (Osaka Univ., Jpn.), M. Hidaka (Kyushu Univ., Jpn.), O. Shimomura (KEK, Jpn.), I. Yamada (Chiba Univ., Jpn.)

D41.84 La^139 nuclear magnetic resonance in ferromagnetic La_0.7Ca_0.3MnO_3.

Joonghoe Dho, Soonchil Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)

D41.85 Scanning Hall Probe Microscopy for Simultaneous Topographic and Magnetic Imaging

T. Fukumura, H. Sugawara, T. Hasegawa, K. Kitazawa, K. Tanaka, T. Noda, H. Sakaki (Univ. of Tokyo), Y. Nagamune (Electrotechnical Laboratory), H. Taguchi, J. Nakagawa, H. Nishio (TDK Corpolation)

D41.86 Magneto-optical Properties of Magnetoplumbite Ba Ferrite

Xijuan Zhang, Yingmei Wang, Zhengming Shao (Yangzhou University, China.)

D41.87 Simulation of Grain Boundary Motion During High Temperature Cyclic Deformation

Karl Johann Draheim, Günter Gottstein (Institut für Metallkunde und Metallphysik, RWTH Aachen, Gemany)

D41.88 Simulation of Dynamic Strain Aging and the Portevin- Le Chatelier Effect in AlMg-Alloys

Karl Johann Draheim (Institut für Metallkunde und Metallphysik, RWTH Aachen, Gemany)

D41.89 A Three Parameter Model for the Plastic Deformation Behavior of AA2024 Based on 2D Dislocation Dynamics Simulations

Franz Roters, Dierk Raabe, Günter Gottstein (Institut für Metallkunde und Metallphysik, SFB 370 "Integrative Werkstoffmodellierung" der DFG, RWTH Aachen, Germany)

D41.90 Vacancy Island Diffusion on Ag(111): a Molecular Dynamics Study

Ulrike Kürpick, Peter Kürpick, Talat. S. Rahman (Kansas State University)

D41.91 Dynamic Phase Transition in a Kinetic Ising Model

S.W. Sides, R.A. Ramos, P.A. Rikvold, M.A. Novotny (^\astMARTECH, SCRI, Florida State U.; Electrical Engineering, FAMU-FSU; ^\circDepartment of Physics, U. of Puerto Rico)

D41.92 Anomalous cross-correlations in phase-separated binary liquids

J.C. Lee (U. of Southern Mississippi)

D41.93 Generalized Relativistic Effective Core Potential. Gaussian Expansions for Atoms Hg through Rn.

N.S. Mosyagin, A.V. Titov (PNPI), Z. Latajka (ICUW)

D41.94 Ab-initio Calculation of Structural Properties of Semiconductor Compounds

Bradford K. Dickerson, Garett W. Yoder, An-Ban Chen (Auburn)

D41.95 Molecular-Dynamics/Electronic-Structure Study of the Metal-Electrolyte Interface

D.L. Price (University of Memphis), J.W. Halley (University of Minnesota)

D41.96 Tight Binding Electron Density Correction to Equivalent Crystal Theory

Fredy R. Zypman (Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay), John Ferrante (NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, USA)

D41.97 Ab initio Calculations of Relaxations and Miscibility in Pt(111)-Sn System

Weibin Fei, Pavlin Staikov, Talat S. Rahman (Kansas State University)

D41.98 Construction of a Model Hamitonian Using a Combined First-Principles and Many-Body Approach for Cs/GaAs(110)

Changfeng Chen (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), X. W. Wang (Florida International University)

D41.99 Core Reconstruction in Ab Initio Pseudopotential Calculations

J.R. Trail, D.M. Bird (School of Physics, University of Bath, Bath, UK)

D41.100 Preparation and Characterization of La_xC_60 Thin Films Fabricated by Layer-by-Layer Deposition

T. Terui, Y. Maruyama, T. Arai, K. A. Williams, S. Mashiko (Kansai Advanced Research Center, Communications Research Laboratory, ^*Dept. of Materials Chemistry, Hosei University,^**Dept. of Physics, Kyushu University, ^***Dept. of Physics amp; Astronomy, University of Kentucky)

D41.101 Avalanches in Interfacial Motion in a Model Porous Medium

Andrew Dougherty (Lafayette College)

D41.102 Dependence of the flux-creep activation energy on the magnetization current for heavy-ion irradiated and unirradiated HgBa_2Ca_2Cu_2O_8+\delta single crystals

E.R. Nowak, J.M. Fabijanic, S. Anders, H.M. Jaeger (James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago), D.G. Hinks (Argonne National Laboratory)

D41.103 I-V Characteristics of Ag-clad Bi(2223) Superconducting Tapes

Ben DeMayo (St. Univ. of West Ga.)

D41.104 Effect of Substrate Preparation on the Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy of Cu(111)/Ni(111) Multilayers.

V. Naik (University of Michigan-Dearborn), R. Naik, D. Yang, P. Talagala, G. Dunifer, G. Auner (Wayne State University), H. Zhao, H.R. Zhai (Nanjing University)

D41.105 First-principles Determinations of Electrical Conductivity and Giant Magnetoresistance in Magnetic Multilayers^*

Fangyi Rao, A. J. Freeman (Northwestern U.)

D41.106 Crystalline coherence and electronic structure of silicide spacer layers in antiferromagnetically coupled Fe/Si multilayers

J.A. Carlisle (Virginia Commonwealth University), A. Chaiken, R.P. Michel, L.J. Terminello (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), T.A. Callcott (University of Tennessee), D.L. Ederer (Tulane University)

D41.107 Giant Magnetoresistance in Transition Metal Zintl Compounds

R. Cohen, D.J. Webb (Dept. of Physics, UCDavis), J. Chan, S.M. Kauzlarich (Dept. of Chemistry, UCDavis)

D41.108 Modification of the core of Ge doped optical fibres by proton ion im plantation

Sjoerd Roorda (Groupe de recherche en physique et technologie des couches minces and departement de physique, Universite de Montreal, CP 6218 succursale centre- ville Montreal H3C 3J7 Canada), Anna Tchebotareva (Groupe de recherche en physique et technologie des couches minces and departement de physique, Universite de Montreal, CP 6218 succursale centre- ville Montreal H3C 3J7 Canada), Jacques Albert (Communications Research Centre, PO Box 11490 station H Ottawa K2H 8S2 Canada), John Brebner (Groupe de recherche en physique et technologie des couches minces and departement de physique, Universite de Montreal, CP 6218 succursale centre- ville Montreal H3C 3J7 Canada)

D41.109 Characterisation of Thermo-elastic Martensitic Transformation in NiTi and FeMn Alloys Driven by Temperature Variation and External Stress

K.F. Liang, P.C.W. Fung (Department of Physics and Centre of Materials Science, The University of Hong Kong, HK), Z.C. Lin, J.X. Zhang (Department of Physics,Zhongshan University,P.R.China)

D41.110 Coarsening dynamics of the weak segregation regime of diblock coplymers

J. J. Christensen (University of Aarhus, Denmark), A. J. Bray (University of Manchester, UK.)

D41.111 High Temperature Electron Transport Properties of 6H- and 3C-SiC

X.M. Weng, H.L. Cui (Stevens Institute of Technology)

D41.112 Theory of Electronic Structure of Surface Reconstructions in GaN

M. Buongiorno Nardelli, K. Rapcewicz, J. Bernholc (N.C. State University, Raleigh)

D41.113 Controlled Scanning Probe Lithography

Todd G. Ruskell (National Institute of Standards and Technology), Dror Sarid, Richard K. Workman, Jason L. Pyle (Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona)

D41.114 Mössbauer Study of Fe/Tb Multilayer Interfaces

A. R. Chowdhury, A. E. Freitag (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

D41.115 Morphology and Growth of Thin Films Probed by Atomic Beam Reflectivity Techniques.

D. J. Lavrich, S. M. Wetterer, P. V. Schwartz, P. Fenter, F. Schreiber, G. Scoles (Princeton University, Princeton NJ, 08544)

D41.116 Local structural properties of vicinal surfaces of Cu

Sondan Durukanoglu, Abdelkader Kara, Talat S. Rahman (Kansas State University)

D41.117 Bronsted Acidity in Zeolites by 2D-ACAR

K.J. Hung, W.F. Huang (U. of Louisville, KY), D.C. Huang (United Cataylst, Inc.), C.C. Huang (National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan), P.K. Tseng (Tamkang Univ., Taiwan)

D41.118 Ab initio electronic structure calculations of M@Si_20 clusters

Kazuo Tsumuraya (School of Science and Engineering, Meiji university), Haruki Eguchi, Kazuyuki Suzuki, Daisuke Kobayashi (School of science and engineering, Meiji university)

D41.119 Spectroscopy of Mass-Selected Rhodium Dimer in Argon Matrices

Hanae Haouari, Huaiming Wang, Robert Craig, Yifei Liu, John R. Lombardi, D.M. Lindsay (Department of Chemistry, and Center for Analysis of Structures and Interfaces (CASI). The City College of NY)

D41.120 Nucleation of epitaxial YBa_2Cu_3O_7-\delta films on SrTiO_3

J. Zegenhagen, T. Haage, H.-U. Habermeier, M. Cardona (Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Heisenbergstr.1 70569 Stuttgart, Germany)

D41.121 Transient Behavior in Binary Nucleation

Barabra E. Wyslouzil (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester MA 01609), Gerald Wilemski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA 94551)

D41.122 Actinic region dosimetry with KCl_1-xBr_x:Eu^2+ mixed crystals

B. Castañeda (Departamento de Física. Universidad de Sonora.), R. Meléndrez, R. Aceves, T.M. Piters, R. Pérez-Salas, M. Barboza-Flores (Centro de Investigacion en Física. Universidad de Sonora.)

D41.123 F-Center coloration as a function of composition produced by \beta -rays in KCl_1-xBr_x:Eu^2+

R. Meléndrez, R. Pérez-Salas, R. Aceves, T.M. Piters, M. Barboza-Flores (Centro de Investigación en Física. Universidad de Sonora.), B. Castañeda (Departamento de Física. Universidad de Sonora.)

D41.124 Defect-Mediated Diffraction Resonances in Helium Atom Surface Scattering

J.G. Skofronick (Department of Physics and MARTECH, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306), A Glebov, J. P. Toennies (MPI f. Stroemungsforschung, Goettingen, Germany), J.R. Manson (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson SC 29634)

D41.125 Paramagnetic Centers in ZnWO_4:Tm Single Crystals

L.A. Kappers, O.R. Gilliam (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT), A. Watterich (Research Laboratory for Crystal Physics, Budapest, Hungary)

D41.126 Molecular-dynamics Study on the Structure and the Stability of Grain Boundary

W. Fan, YiZhen He, X.G. Gong (Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sceinces, 230031-Hefei, China)

D41.127 Fracture Surface Topography of Energetic Materials Using Atomic Force Microscopy

M.Y.D. Lanzerotti (U.S. Army ARDEC, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ)

D41.128 Properties of fcc Metals from Many Body Potentials

Yoshitaka Kimura (Nippon Steel Corporation), Tahir Cagin, William A. Goddard III (California Institute of Technology)

D41.129 Ab Initio Elasticity of SiO_2, CaO and MgO

Bijaya Karki (Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Scotland, UK)

D41.130 Statistical Mechanics Model of Solids with Defects

M. Kaufman (), P.A. Walters (Cleveland State U.), J. Ferrante (NASA)

D41.131 Nanometer-sized Amorphous-crystalline Phase Change Recording Using an Evanescent Field

A. Kikukawa, S. Hosaka (Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd.)

D41.132 Mössbauer Study of Mechanical Alloying of Sm-Zr-Fe.

D. Seifu, E. Hoffman, F.W. Oliver (Morgan State University), A. Aning (Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State University)

D41.133 Macroscopic and Microscopic Mechanical Properties of Compacted Nanopowders

Steven Harrington, Da-Ming Zhu (Department of Physics, University of Missouri-Kansas City), A. Thirunavukkarasu, Anil Misra (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Missouri)

D41.134 Equation of State of Si_3N_4

M. Kruger, Y. Li (University of Missouri-Kansas City), J. Nguyen, W. Caldwell, R. Jeanloz (UC Berkeley), M. Manghnani (University of Hawaii)

D41.135 Compression of FeI_2

Y. Li, M. Kruger (University of Missouri-Kansas City), J. Nguyen, W. Caldwell, A. Kavner, L. Benedetti, R. Jeanloz (UC Berkeley)

D41.136 High Pressure Structural Collapse Due to O-H Instability in Fe(OH)_2

M.P. Pasternak, M. Amanowicz, A.P. Milner, G.Kh. Rozenberg (School\,of\,Physics\,and\,Astronomy, Tel\,Aviv\,Univ.,Israel), R.D. Taylor (Los\,Alamos\,National\,Lab.), K.E. Brister (CHESS,\,Cornell\,Univ.)

D41.137 A Study of Polymer Interactions with Moisture in Polyaniline and its Derivatives

A.J. Dyakonov, B.J. McCormick (), P.K. Kahol (Wichita State University)

D41.138 ESR and Conductivity of Electrochemically Doped BBB Polymer

T.C. Sandreczki, J.W. Park, T. Zheng (Univ. of Missouri--KC)

D41.139 A Simple Methodology Based Upon Dielectric Constant Measurements To >Obtain The Protonation Level In Polyaniline

W.T. Cooper (), P.K. Kahol (Wichita State University)

D41.140 An Essential Excitation/Scattering Approach to the Calculation of Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties

David Yaron (Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University)

D41.141 An Investigation on Dielectric Properties of BaTiO_3 Ceramics.

X.B. Chen, W.S. Gao, X.Y. Mao (Yangzhou University, China)

D41.142 Levy Flight and Generalized Statistical Mechanics: Analysis of a Concrete Model

C.A. Condat, Iván Delgado, Jorge Rangel (University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez)

D41.143 Rapid Oscillations (P\leq2 sec), Obs. by Unaided Eye, Accompany Onset Thru Term. of Flar Star's Brief Luminosity Apparition.

K.L. McDonald (Salt Lake Utah)